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MyTube is a MooTools 1.2 plugin developed using the available player API and data API from YouTube. Basically, if you’re an YouTube publisher or simply someone who wants to display some videos pulled from YouTube on his website, this is for you.

For example, if you want to display some related (or not) videos into a post in your blog, instead of displaying 3-4 players for each video, you can have only one player and attached to it into a playlist, all 4 videos so your users can choose what to play.

The script is completely unobtrusive giving the possibility to display multiple playlists with attached video players retrieved from YouTube based on either an user name to pull videos from or simply by using the video ID you can get from any YouTube video link. All embedding and displaying is done by the script, no special knowledge needed except some CSS. (more…)

ChainedSelect is a MooTools 1.2 JavaScript plugin that enables the user to navigate through parent – children tree structure with indefinite number of nodes and make a selection when the desired option is encountered.

This approach offers a more powerful solution versus the classical drop down boxes chained together for a number of reasons: it takes significantly less space in the page; it can contain any number of nested levels, navigation would not be harmed; it can be styled according to the overall page design from CSS and most of all, it looks better.

The purpose of the plugin is to replace the classic chained dropdown lists that have 2 or more selects and get populated with options once you select an option from a previous one.

The whole idea behind this plugin evolves around the tree structure generated by a PHP file and sent to JavaScript as a JSON string. Giving the fact that the whole structure of the tree is loaded, the request to the PHP script is made only once and then the response is reused when navigating the nodes. Once a node is selected, the plugin allows the user to return on the path he used to get to the current node.

If an option is selected and the script that verifies the user’s entry returns an error (for example the e-mail address is invalid), the plugin offers the possibility to display the last selected option leaving it selected and accessible in POST / GET depending what method you used on the form. (more…)